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Rabbit virus improves bone marrow transplants
University of Florida Health researchers have discovered that a rabbit virus can deliver a one-two punch, killing some kinds of cancer cells while eliminating a common and dangerous complication of bone marrow transplants. For patients with blood cancers such as leukemia and multiple myeloma, a bone marrow transplant can be both curative and perilous………Go to Health news blog (Added on 6/05/2015 2:18:18 PM) Measuring treatment response for guiding leukemia treatment
Measuring the concentration of leukemia cells in patient bone marrow during the first 46 days of chemotherapy should help boost survival of young leukemia patients by better matching patients with the right intensity of chemotherapy. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital investigators led the research, which appears in the March 20 edition of the journal……..Go to health news blog (Added on 03/21/2015 4:22:29 PM)
A fundamental malaria discovery
A team of scientists led by Kasturi Haldar and Souvik Bhattacharjee of the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases has made a fundamental discovery in understanding how malaria parasites cause deadly disease. The scientists show how parasites target proteins to the surface of the red blood cell that enables sticking to and blocking blood vessels. Strategies that prevent this host-targeting process will block……..Go to the Infectious disease blog (Added on 1/20/2012 6:37:29 PM)
Diet, nutrient levels linked to cognitive ability, brain shrinkage
New research has observed that elderly people with higher levels of several vitamins and omega 3 fatty acids in their blood had better performance on mental acuity tests and less of the brain shrinkage typical of Alzheimer’s disease � while “junk food” diets produced just the opposite result. The study was among the first of its type to specifically measure a wide range of blood nutrient levels instead of basing findings on less precise data……..Go to the Neurology news blog (Added on 12/28/2011 7:08:18 PM)
Read infant acetaminophen labels carefully
Acetaminophen is one of the most usually used pain and fever relievers for infants and children and is safe and effective when used as directed. However, with recent dosing changes to liquid acetaminophen products for infants, the FDA last week issued a press release urging parents to know the concentration and read the label as the new, less concentrated form of the popular pain reliever arrives on store shelves. Over the past 12 months,……..Go to the Pediatric news blog (Added on 12/28/2011 7:02:30 PM)
Turn Down the iPod to Save Your Hearing
Today’s ubiquitous MP3 players permit users to listen to crystal-clear tunes at high volume for hours on end – a marked improvement on the days of the Walkman. But as per Tel Aviv University research, these advances have also turned personal listening devices into a serious health hazard, with teenagers as the most at-risk group. One in four teens is in danger of early hearing loss as |
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AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi (durvalumab) has been approved in the US as a 1st-line treatment for adult patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC) in combination with standard-of-care (SoC) chemotherapies, etoposide plus either carboplatin or cisplatin (platinum-etoposide).
The approval by the Food and Drug Administration…
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Thousands of elective and semi-elective surgeries — including heart and chest operations — are on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic.
If your heart or chest surgery has been postponed, Dr. Robbin Cohen and Dr. Elizabeth David of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons offer some advice.
“We especially don’t want to turn postponed elective or semi-elective…
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Rockwell Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ:RMTI) (“Rockwell Medical” or the “Company”), a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to transforming anemia management and improving outcomes for patients around the world, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) has approved its New Drug…
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Sarclisa Approved to Treat Patients with Advancing Multiple Myeloma
Multiple myeloma is an incurable blood cancer that forms in the bone marrow. This month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Sanofi’s Sarclisa (isatuximab-irfc) used in combination with pomalidomide and dexamethasone (pom-dex) for the treatment of adults with…
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Eilish, Carey, Other Stars Perform From Home in Coronavirus Benefit Concert
In an hour-long benefit concert to raise money for people affected by the coronavirus pandemic, musicians including Mariah Carey, Billie Eilish, Alicia Keys and Dave Grohl…
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As U.S. coronavirus cases surged past 163,000 on Tuesday, Americans were told they may soon get a look at the statistical disease models that public officials have been using to urge more than 250 million people to stay at home.
The U.S. coronavirus death toll also edged past 3,000, close to surpassing China’s death count of 3,305, the New York Times…
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A simple blood test for dozens of cancers is in the works.
Researchers say their test can detect more than 50 kinds of cancer at early stages and pinpoint their location in the body.
“If these findings are validated, it will be feasible to consider how this test might be incorporated into a broader cancer screening strategy,” said lead researcher…
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Could long hours at the office put you at risk for hypothyroidism?
New research suggests it’s possible: Hypothyroidism (an underactive thyroid) was more than twice as common in adults who worked 53 to 83 hours a week as in those who worked 36 to 42 hours a week (3.5% vs. 1.4%).
Hypothyroidism can cause tiredness, depression, feeling cold and weight…
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Folks with clogged arteries do as well with medication and lifestyle changes as they do after undergoing invasive procedures to reopen their blood vessels, a major new clinical trial reports.
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Diet refers to the nurturing of our body, in our capability to maintain it wholesome and functioning as it’s imagined to do. Our potential to provide the body with all the required food, nutritional vitamins, and minerals in order that we proceed to thrive in our each day life processes.
When we don’t give satisfactory time for these processes, or we simply don’t get enough relaxation, our mind cannot keep its state of fitness, identical to our bodies aren’t capable of fitness if there isn’t any likelihood to relaxation and replenish.
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WIC provides the following without charge: healthy foods, diet training and counseling, breastfeeding help, and referrals for health care. Each day, you may be reminded about why you selected a career in healthcare. A pure dwelling treatment towards sore throat- gargle with onion peels brew a number of occasions a day.
Having a balanced approach to a healthy life-style is necessary. Meals loaded with lean protein, antioxidants and loads of healthy vitamins are best. Vitamin E will increase blood flow all through the body, all the way in which to these tiny blood vessels that make up the penis, this speeds therapeutic and helps maintain the health of the penis tissue.…
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